SHshreddit·Jul 17, 2021
There is a Port of the Linux kernel for M1, so it shouldn't take much longer for distros to be available
https://github.com/corellium/linux-m1
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| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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8 sourcesHeh, corellium did it by making a fake PCIe controller:
https://github.com/corellium/linux-m1/commit/e501cce95dfcc65...
https://github.com/corellium/linux-m1/commit/08f0fcce76579a5...
In Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part IVFor anyone else interested: https://github.com/corellium/linux-m1/blob/master/drivers/pc...
In OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware> can build world in about 130% of the time of a 32-core Ampere EMAG
This says more about the eMAG than the M1, to be honest :D The APM X-Gene derived cores in the eMAG are far behind current cores from everyone else. The new Ampere Altra is using stock Arm Neoverse cores. (Which makes me wonder if all they got out of the APM acquisition was just one dead-end generation of product…)
> Is this fixed in either FreeBSD or Qemu at this point?
Not in FreeBSD for sure, as an obsessive commit watcher I can say I haven't seen any M1 quirks land.
> 2 different instructions on ARM to say "i'm idle, wake me up if something happens" (like x86 mwait), and Apple M1 uses one, while everybody else uses the other
Everybody should use both in different circumstances:
https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/f...
But according to Corellium
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's Linux work "the CPU tends to lose state" when using WFI for system idle:
https://github.com/corellium/linux-m1/commit/b8ecd5924678f1c...
Not sure why this would have an impact on VM idling… (upd: yeah it's QEMU-side stuff, see other comments)
Corellium Releases 'Completely Usable' Version of Linux for M1 Macs
3 points · Open discussionGreat progress already thanks to Corellium for the M1 linux projects [0][1], the PongoOS project and to all others involved.
Getting GPU acceleration is now the real challenge.
[0] https://github.com/corellium/preloader-m1
[1] https://github.com/corellium/linux-m1
In Linux Running on Apple M1Corellium Linux on Apple M1 kernel tree
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